Sunset Love
"Sunset Love" is the work of the Black Emperor when he was 83 years old in 1993, and it is also his last work. The whole movie, full of fun and extravagant, completely lacks the seriousness and depth of his previous works, and instead has a deep affection for life and a long attachment to life. In his later works, the ambition and ambition of the Black Emperor were also evident.
"Dream" He shows the theme of human life with dreams, and "August Rhapsody" he asks the old grandmother to gently accuse war crimes with silence and madness. This kind of theme is more attempted than previous works, he always wants to make the film play its role to the maximum, and always hopes to use the film to reflect on human beings and make the world harmonious. But soon, this self-evaluation in addition to the film itself equal to zero black emperor became solid, perhaps he thought of a more practical reason for people to live and survive. When the old age is approaching, there is no hard support to prove that "incorruptible and old, can you still eat?" He let go of everything, removed all the rules and regulations, and casually thought about where to create this "Sunset Love".
The protagonist of "Sunset Love" is the Japanese writer Uchida Hyakasa, a sensitive and full of fun old naughty boy. The film is mainly about this old naughty boy, who resigned at the age of 61 and began to write wholeheartedly, and went back and forth with his own students. Everything is a small matter of sesame seeds, and the words are all the impromptu play of Uchida On different occasions. But people are not boring at all, and from time to time they can't help but laugh when they don't pay attention. This kind of film about the theme of the elderly, it is reasonable to say that it is not easy for me, a young man with a shallow experience, to watch it, let alone be full of excitement!
Watching the movie, I wondered from time to time how happy I would be if I had such a large group of students around me in my old age. Compared with the dazzling and dazzling old age when young, such an old and warm is more worrying about the beauty of life, even if it is a lifetime of nothing, when it is old, it can achieve such a happy and harmonious, then I feel that this life has not been in vain. Maybe I'm really young, and I feel that the language pales no matter how I express it, but I think if I watched this movie at the age of fifty or sixty, my feelings would be deeper and more.
The Japanese name of the movie means "Not yet." It is also a line taken from the "Maada Meeting" held by students for Uchida Toshiaki after the age of 61. The original intention was that when the Moado Society was held one session at a time, if Uchida held a large glass of beer, when the student asked him if he was ready, he said, "Not yet!" ", indicating that he is still alive. This is a self-deprecating sentence of the old naughty boy, and you can also see his humorous attitude towards life and his calmness about life. This phrase is the usual phrase used by Japanese children when they play hide and seek, "Are you ready?" "Not yet!". This kind of childlike fun reflects the old man's attitude to life, and perhaps it is this childlike fun that has achieved the writer's unique loose narrative style. His "Essays on the Hundred Ghosts Garden" has a high status in Japan, and even set off a boom in writing essays in the early years of Showa in Japan. This childlike trait is unique to the writer, and it is precisely by virtue of this childlike fun that Uchida Ishiaki is able to write like a fountain and think quickly. Akira Kurosawa used the film to bring this writer to life, without a hint of deliberate tallness. This old naughty boy is even inferior to our ordinary people in many ways, and after the house fire, he and his wife live in a dilapidated wooden house of two or three square meters, and he will also cry and weep. Saying that his grandmother could predict the prophet, saying that he might become a beggar when he was a child. But soon, his students came, and they saw the moon rising from the narrow door, and Uchida forgot all his unhappiness, and seemed to think that such an encounter was also a gift from heaven. There are also a lot of humorous and childlike plots about Uchida Inakura in the movie, such as preventing thieves and prohibiting people from defecating, which is really cute to the extreme. Having such a childlike teacher is simply a living treasure, how can students not like to get along with him? Childish fun accompanies Uchida's life, and in his later years he lost his soul for a long time because of the disappearance of a cat, even in the last moments of his life, he dreamed of him playing hide-and-seek with other children when he was a child. The other children asked him, "Are you ready?" He said, "Not yet." "Finally the other children came home, and he fell asleep in the hiding place, a warm ending.
The past lunar year has passed, go home to visit old parents, or grandparents, or grandparents, or fathers-in-law and mother-in-law, we also see a lot of old children.
The older people will become more simple, many things are still very real, we young people should show the time, the biggest task is to say the words to the heart of the old people, do not be impatient with the elderly, when they must be coaxed, they have coaxed us for decades, but we can go back for a few years? The elderly are older, have a strong sense of loss and dependence, many times just like Uchida Baixian lost the appearance of the cat, we must do our best to comfort him, do not meet all pay yuan, think that filial piety can really take money to buy.
When the empty nest old people are as harmonious as the old writers in Akira Kurosawa's images, the society will be truly harmonious.
It is rare to see such a free and warm film made by Akira Kurosawa, which fully proves how long life is how far Kurosawa's film road is, he is worthy of the film emperor, the Shakespeare of the film industry.